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This paper reports the findings of a research project investigating the utilization and
continuous improvement of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Adopting the
aspects of a resource management framework and Critical Success Factor research, an
initial framework is developed. The framework is developed through a survey of ERP
system expert consultants. A number of factors and causalities are identified, including
the positive role of use by top management and the role of corporate culture. Two
factors were found to have a negative impact on utilization. The first is the unreflective
use of ERP system implementation methods, which can ‘kill’ the visions and ideas of
implementing ERP systems, while the second is the vanilla implementation strategy.

European Commission funded research is driven by the objective of integrating excellent research in Europe by using public funding to gain momentum and sustainability. This paper presents the results of an analysis of the management patterns of 20 Networks of Excellence. Our analysis indicates an absence of business management competences in the project consortia and unclear criteria for sustainability. Sustainability strategies appear to be ad hoc driven and orchestrated by the project monitoring events, rather than built in the consortia management structure. The paper advocates for bringing onboard conventional management models along with strategic positioning, business models, and business plans.

This paper analyzes the 44 papers included in the proceedings of the 5th ICMB conference in
Copenhagen 2006. The purpose of the paper was to investigate to what extent the conference
fulfilled its objectives which was to compare previous expectations with present realities along
the following four areas: (1) business models, (2) the influence of m-business on private and
work life, (3) the impact of regulation, and (4) the re-composition of the value network. In the
analysis we apply the well-known framework by Lyytinen and Yoo for studying nomadic
computing. In addition to this we also classify the papers in relation to type of artifact
investigated, application area, and research methodology. The analysis show that the main focus
lay on the use and adoption of mobile services – over 60% of the papers address. Few papers
address the impact of service on any level of analysis. Business model is a recurring topic in 17
of the papers. There is lack in theorizing of the artifact, e.g. many just study mobile devices, but
do not describe what type they study.

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Managers must aspire to understand their organization in a way that allows
them to take appropriate actions when necessary and to be able to utilize
tools which encourage the organization to behave in a desirable way. The
field of performance management deals with these objectives and is becoming
increasingly pervasive.
However, the author’s personal experience and substantial scholarship
suggest that performance management is linked to dysfunctional behavior in
organizations. Various current explanations for the link between measurement
and dysfunction revolve around observability or knowledge of the transformation
process, but seem simplistic and inadequate. This work examines
measurement as one representational form out of many others, for example
text. It is proposed that the representational form used in performance management
practice is implicated with dysfunctional behavior.
This demands an exploration of the relevant facets of organizational reality
which influence the relationship with various representational forms. After a
theoretical positioning, the relationship is explored empirically through onsite
visits at two Microsoft Corporation locations in Copenhagen and Redmond.
Thirty stories of performance management, based on interviews with senior
managers, are presented. The stories provide the basis for establishing a rich
understanding of organizational reality and the implications of using various
representational forms in terms of dysfunctional behavior.
These implications lead to a fundamental rethinking of the form and
boundaries of performance management theory and practice, and emphasize
the need for a multi-paradigmatic approach to performance management,
which is presented.

Sustainable fashion in all its guises, has been the preoccupation of many a recent campaign, article,
research and initiative. Not only is the industry increasingly aware of the need to cut its environmental
impact, but also consumers and consumer organisations are putting pressures on various parts of the
supply chain to comply with environmental and ethical practices. Yet, from a management
perspective, the economic impact of these demands can lead to conflicting priorities. In particular, the
basic marketing concept of product lifecycle indicates the product’s gradual diminishing monetary
returns through time.
In this paper we will be analysing a case of a refashioning of products that are either obsolete or
unsalable and making a commercially viable collection. In 2008 MCM collaborated with the London
College of Fashion to reuse, recycle and redesign a number of end-of-line, dated handbags into new
objects of desire with a new lifecycle. This case will form a basis of analysing the validity of such a
product re-development tactic for other luxury brands.
The paper will provides a blueprint for future re-fashioning initiatives by reflecting on the value
inherent in the process for both users and firms alike. The paper contributes to the understanding of
recycling and sustainable fashion from a theoretical perspective that links together the product
lifecycle, co-creation and value creation theories. The main theoretical implication of the work
concerns the framing of recycling and refashioning with the context of those linked
concepts.According to this contribution, refashioning can enable value creation from obsolete
products, especially if a co-design with consumers or users forms part of the proposition.
On the managerial side, this study recognisees the economic drivers of business and highlights the
commercial, not only environmental and societal benefits of recycling within the luxury sector. The
recycled products stand in direct opposition to counterfeiting, which is evident in the uniqueness for
refashioned products leading to the development of new objects of desire.

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Historically, organizations developed their information systems in-house. Today, a large portion of information systems development is based on acquisition of pre-made information systems, so called commercially off the shelf (COTS) systems. This approach of developing information systems requires new skills and methods supporting the process of evaluating and selecting information systems. This paper presents a method for selecting COTS systems. The method includes the following phases: problem framing, requirements and appraisal, and selection of systems. The idea and distinguishing feature behind the method is that improved understanding of organizational’ ends’ or goals should govern the selection of a COTS system. This can also be expressed as a match or fit between ‘ends’ (e.g. improved organizational effectiveness) and ‘means’ (e.g. implementing COTS systems). This way of approaching the selection of COTS systems as viewing COTS systems as a ‘mean’ to reach organizational ‘ends’ is different from the mainstream view of information systems development, which view information systems development as a problem solving process, and the underlying ontological view in other COTS selection methods, which focus on selection of functionality not reaching organizational ends.

The Shared Experonments system provides interactive services for ubiquitous real-time interactive social sharing of experiences and environments. Designed and implemented for ubiquitous high-speed wireless environments, the Shared Experonments system provides synchronous ways and means for interactive social sharing of erstwhile personal experiences while one or more persons are in remote locations. Example scenarios include sharing of experiences with friends and family while off hiking or trekking, as well as business situations where a remote field worker must collaborate in real time with other field workers or head office. The Shared Experonments system integrates multiple realities and works in a variety of mixed reality modes and interactional settings, and crucially supports deixis from one environment to another.

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A Single User-Action Solution to Creating, Tagging, Geo-Coding, Archiving, Sharing, and Streaming of Digital Artifacts, Objects, and Content

Vatrapu, Ravi; Joseph, Sam(Frederiksberg, 2009)

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The Socio-Spatial History Recorder system provides a one-stop single-user action solution to creating, tagging, geo-coding, archiving, sharing and streaming of digital artifacts. Users of this solution will no longer need to perform intermediary actions to edit, prepare, and publish their digital artifacts to the Internet or their social networks. For example, in the case of digital still images, this system offers a one-click solution to sharing a digital artifact. An user can shoot a picture, geo-code the picture, display the picture in a mapping application, and share it with another user all by one and only one shutter click on the digital still image capturing device. Social sharing rules and rights can be set up in advance or dynamically configured and the digital artifacts can be encrypted if desired or required. Practical uses of this system in the social domain include unobtrusive social sharing of digital artifacts embedded in their rich interactional contexts. Practical uses are also in application domains that require or would benefit from unobtrusive collection of rich ecological data without disrupting and/or interrupting the user's primary activity cycle.

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The Songs+Spaces system supports dynamic song selection and visualization based on the digital artifacts associated with a particular location. Songs+Spaces allows the user to select between different channels that filter out sets of digital artifacts associated with their current location. The Songs+Spaces system chooses songs based on user (self or other) preferences, geo-coded photos, videos, text annotations, and graphics associated with a particular place and uses them to provide visual accompaniment on the screen of a personal media player or heads up display. This application makes use of GPS or other location based services, and will run on any device that has access to such services

Recent innovations have integrated information and communication technology
(ICT) into the fabric of people’s daily lives. Wireless technology, with its
constant presence and transcendence of geographical boundaries, has
profoundly influenced people’s behavior and the consumption of technology
and related services. During the past few years, wireless technologies have
shifted from simple devices offering mobile phone calling to multipurpose
devices that incorporate the capabilities of other devices. The multiple uses of
these devices, coupled with the blurring of the work-home and utilitarianhedonic
technology, creates the need for a new understanding of technology
adoption and use....

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Technological innovation and the role of regulation by law in information systems research: The case of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Ronzani, Daniel(Frederiksberg, 2009)

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This paper-based thesis attempts to answer the question how the
adoption and diffusion of RFID can be balanced successfully between
technological innovation and regulation by law. To answer this
question, an abductive reasoning perspective has been applied. The
first premise of abduction includes four sets of observations presented
in four articles; the second premise of abduction includes two
hypothetical claims, and the third premise of abduction builds the
case, i.e., concludes the thesis.
As first step, the definitional framework is established. Ten theories of
adoption and diffusion of technological innovation (TRA, TPB, MPCU,
SCT, TAM, TAM2, C-TAM-TPB, IDT, PCI, and UTAUT) and their
characteristics are investigated. They frame the technological
viewpoint. Then, the reasons for regulation (public interest theory,
private interest theory, and institutionalist theory) as well as the means
of regulation (regulation by law, norms, market, and architecture) and
their application are investigated. They frame the regulatory viewpoint.
As second step, four observations are made that constitute the first
premise of abduction based on the findings of four individual research
articles referred to as the Database Article, Marketing Article, Modality
Mix Article, and Survey Article:
Database Article: This research article evaluates the strategic
advantage of placing RFID databases in certain territorial and
jurisdictional regions based on database regulation. The analysis of
the database regulation by law in Europe and North America revealed
that, based on the creativity, skill and judgement, and investment
doctrine, they do not protect RFID data in databases. It is claimed that
protection of RFID data in databases should be regulated by other
means of regulation, for instance, by regulation by norms or
architecture. Observation 1 stipulates: Despite the amount of data
anticipated to be stored and the regulation by law in the different
countries where RFID is adopted and diffused, the location of the
databases containing RFID data does not seem to play an important
role for the technological innovator.
Marketing Article: This research article applies a legal use case for the
technological innovations marketed by the industry as active RFID
tags. The analysis of the RFID industry’s marketing efforts and the unfavourable regulation by law is possible, and likely. Adopting the
broad legal interpretation of self-emitting devices (short-range
devices) to RFID tags that need to transduce energy from an RFID
reader (active RFID tags) might allow the search and seizure of
transmitted RFID data without a warrant to be in line with the
constitutional rights. It is claimed that within the RFID industry there
should be more awareness of regulation by legislation and
adjudication. Observation 2 stipulates: Extending the doctrinal
definition of active RFID tags to include reader-independent and
indiscriminate signalling might lead to unfavourable regulation by law.
Modality Mix Article: This research article offers a reflection on how
law must manage the evolution of technological innovation. The
analysis of the Draft Recommendation (2008) by the European
Commission shows that the focus on regulation by law is inappropriate
for a manageable diffusion of RFID technology. An over-regulation of
RFID technology by regulation by law is possible if the Draft
Recommendation (2008) is implemented and comes into force. It is
claimed that a more diverse set of modalities (regulation by norms,
market, and architecture) is necessary to successfully regulate RFID
technology. Observation 3 stipulates: The current adoption and
diffusion of RFID technology do not seem to be following an
appropriate mix of regulation.
Survey Article: This research article provides a reverse perspective of
current RFID issues by examining the RFID industry’s view of
regulation by law and consumers. The analysis of the survey data of
the RFID industry shows three shortcomings by the RFID industry in
its engagement of legal experts, its knowledge of regulation by law for
RFID subject-matter, and its information policy to the general public. It
is claimed that the exchange between the RFID industry and the legal
regulator needs to improve. Observation 4 stipulates: The interaction
between, and consequently also the exchange of expert know-how
and standpoints of, (i) the RFID industry and the legal regulator and
(ii) the RFID industry and the consumers seem insufficient.
As third step, two hypothetical claims are made as second premise of
abduction based on a literature review of characteristics of adoption
and diffusion of technological innovation in IS research, namely IT,
EDI, and RFID. First, the research shows that in IS research there are only a few regulation-by-law characteristics (5 of 150 different
characteristics). Thus, a first hypothetical claim is made that in IS
research there is a lack of legal perspectives. Second, the research
shows that in IS research there are even fewer characteristics of other
regulatory means, such as for example, social norms, market or
architecture. Thus a second hypothetical claim is made that in IS
research there is a lack of diversity in regulation of technological
innovation.
Finally, a case is built as third premise of abduction. It seems possible
to conclude that (i) based on observation 1 and hypothetical claim 2,
increasing the diversity of regulation modalities might have a positive
effect on the strategic management decisions for the location of RFID
systems; (ii) based on observation 2 and hypothetical claim 1,
increasing the legal perspective in IS research might have a positive
effect on the RFID industry’s marketing strategy; (iii) based on
observation 3 and hypothetical claim 2, a more thorough and precise
review of essential regulation by law is necessary; and (iv) based on
observation 4 and hypothetical claim 1, increasing the legal
perspective in IS research might have a positive effect on the RFID
industry’s awareness of the legal challenges and their consequences.
It is suggested that the four cases (conclusions) built in this thesis
provide a solid foundation for the following four hypotheses that can
be further tested with additional empirical data:
1. Increasing the diversity of regulation modalities has a positive
effect on the strategic management decisions for the deployment
location of technological innovation.
2. Increasing the legal perspective in IS research has a positive
effect on the marketing strategy for technological innovation.
3. Increasing the thoroughness and precision in the review of
essential regulation by law has a positive effect on other
regulatory tools for technological innovation.
4. Increasing the legal perspective in IS research has a positive
effect on the industry’s awareness of the legal challenges and
their consequences.
Therefore, to prevent bits from falling once they have learned to walk,
the legal perspective of regulation in IS research as well as the
diverse implementation of regulation in IS research should probably be increased. Such an increase might augment the awareness for the
potential of regulation in technological innovation, which, in turn, might
foster the adoption and diffusion of RFID.